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UAW Members Take Working Class Agenda to DC at 2026 CAP Conference

At our 2026 National CAP Conference this week, nearly 1,000 members from around the country joined together to focus on advocating for the four core i...

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2026 UAW Family Scholarship

Apply Now for the 2026 Family Scholarship at Black Lake

Since 1970, thousands of UAW members and their families have participated in the Walter and May Reuther UAW Family Education Center Sch...

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FREEP: Juneteenth feels different this year for autoworker

For Gerald Kariem, Juneteenth feels even more special in Detroit. So many successful Black Americans today are descendants of the millions of men and women who left the south for work in the north starting back in 1916 to build Ford cars.

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UAW President Rory L. Gamble Juneteenth Memorial

Today, we take time to honor the memory of our lost brother, George Floyd. We will sit still, we will put down our tools and silence our phones for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. A full eight minutes and 46 seconds -- the agonizing amount of time that Mr. Floyd lay on the pavement begging for his life.

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Juneteenth Memorial

Dear Sisters and Brothers, As trade unionists and as Americans, we were outraged and heartsick at the horror of George Floyd’s death on May 25. It was yet another tragedy in a long and sorrowful history of the divisiveness of racism in this nation. Since that day in communities from coast to coast, we have seen Americans from all walks of life, black, brown and white, stand together to demand change. To demand – finally – that we address the systemic racial divide that has plagued our nation since its inception.

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